Hi,
I've been analyzing why fstest generic/081 fails when the backing device is
capable of DAX. The problem boils down to the failure of:
lvm vgcreate -f vg0 /dev/pmem0
lvm lvcreate -L 128M -n lv0 vg0
lvm lvcreate -s -L 4M -n snap0 vg0/lv0
The last command fails like:
device-mapper: reload ioctl on (253:0) failed: Invalid argument
Failed to lock logical volume vg0/lv0.
Aborting. Manual intervention required.
And the core of the problem is that volume vg0/lv0 is originally of
DM_TYPE_DAX_BIO_BASED type but when the snapshot gets created, we try to
switch it to DM_TYPE_BIO_BASED because now the device stops supporting DAX.
The problem seems to be introduced by Ross' commit dbc626597 "dm: prevent
DAX mounts if not supported".
The question is whether / how this should be fixed. The current inability
to create snapshots of DAX-capable devices looks weird and the cryptic
failure makes it even worse (it took me quite a while to understand what is
failing and why). OTOH I see the rationale behind Ross' change as well.
Honza
--
Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR

For device specific memory space, when we move these area of pfn to
memory zone, we will set the page reserved flag at that time, some of
these reserved for device mmio, and some of these are not, such as
NVDIMM pmem.
Now, we map these dev_dax or fs_dax pages to kvm for DIMM/NVDIMM
backend, since these pages are reserved. the check of
kvm_is_reserved_pfn() misconceives those pages as MMIO. Therefor, we
introduce 2 page map types, MEMORY_DEVICE_FS_DAX/MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX,
to indentify these pages are from NVDIMM pmem. and let kvm treat these
as normal pages.
Without this patch, Many operations will be missed due to this
mistreatment to pmem pages. For example, a page may not have chance to
be unpinned for KVM guest(in kvm_release_pfn_clean); not able to be
marked as dirty/accessed(in kvm_set_pfn_dirty/accessed) etc.
V1:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/4/91
V2:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/7/10/135
V3:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/8/9/17
V4:
[PATCH V3 1/4] Added "Reviewed-by: David / Acked-by: Pankaj"
[PATCH V3 2/4] Added "Reviewed-by: Jan"
[PATCH V3 3/4] Added "Acked-by: Jan"
[PATCH V3 4/4] Fix several typos
Zhang Yi (4):
kvm: remove redundant reserved page check
mm: introduce memory type MEMORY_DEVICE_DEV_DAX
mm: add a function to differentiate the pages is from DAX device
memory
kvm: add a check if pfn is from NVDIMM pmem.
drivers/dax/pmem.c | 1 +
include/linux/memremap.h | 8 ++++++++
include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++++++++++++
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c | 16 ++++++++--------
4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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2.7.4

Changes since v3:
* Added an ext4_break_layouts() call to ext4_insert_range() to ensure
that the {ext4,xfs}_break_layouts() calls have the same meaning.
(Dave, Darrick and Jan)
---
This series from Dan:
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2018-March/014913.html
added synchronization between DAX dma and truncate/hole-punch in XFS.
This short series adds analogous support to ext4.
I've added calls to ext4_break_layouts() everywhere that ext4 removes
blocks from an inode's map.
The timings in XFS are such that it's difficult to hit this race. Dan
was able to show the race by manually introducing delays in the direct
I/O path.
For ext4, though, its trivial to hit this race, and a hit will result in
a trigger of this WARN_ON_ONCE() in dax_disassociate_entry():
WARN_ON_ONCE(trunc && page_ref_count(page) > 1);
I've made an xfstest which tests all the paths where we now call
ext4_break_layouts(). Each of the four paths easily hits this race many
times in my test setup with the xfstest. You can find that test here:
https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2018-June/016435.html
With these patches applied, I've still seen occasional hits of the above
WARN_ON_ONCE(), which tells me that we still have some work to do. I'll
continue looking at these more rare hits.
Ross Zwisler (2):
dax: dax_layout_busy_page() warn on !exceptional
ext4: handle layout changes to pinned DAX mappings
fs/dax.c | 10 +++++++++-
fs/ext4/ext4.h | 1 +
fs/ext4/extents.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
fs/ext4/inode.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/ext4/truncate.h | 4 ++++
5 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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2.14.4

Hi Everyone,
Now that the patchset which creates a command line option to disable
ACS redirection has landed it's time to revisit the P2P patchset for
copy offoad in NVMe fabrics.
I present version 5 wihch no longer does any magic with the ACS bits and
instead will reject P2P transactions between devices that would be affected
by them. A few other cleanups were done which are described in the
changelog below.
This version is based on v4.19-rc1 and a git repo is here:
https://github.com/sbates130272/linux-p2pmem pci-p2p-v5
Thanks,
Logan
--
Changes in v5:
* Rebased on v4.19-rc1
* Drop changing ACS settings in this patchset. Now, the code
will only allow P2P transactions between devices whos
downstream ports do not restrict P2P TLPs.
* Drop the REQ_PCI_P2PDMA block flag and instead use
is_pci_p2pdma_page() to tell if a request is P2P or not. In that
case we check for queue support and enforce using REQ_NOMERGE.
Per feedback from Christoph.
* Drop the pci_p2pdma_unmap_sg() function as it was empty and only
there for symmetry and compatibility with dma_unmap_sg. Per feedback
from Christoph.
* Split off the logic to handle enabling P2P in NVMe fabrics' configfs
into specific helpers in the p2pdma code. Per feedback from Christoph.
* A number of other minor cleanups and fixes as pointed out by
Christoph and others.
Changes in v4:
* Change the original upstream_bridges_match() function to
upstream_bridge_distance() which calculates the distance between two
devices as long as they are behind the same root port. This should
address Bjorn's concerns that the code was to focused on
being behind a single switch.
* The disable ACS function now disables ACS for all bridge ports instead
of switch ports (ie. those that had two upstream_bridge ports).
* Change the pci_p2pmem_alloc_sgl() and pci_p2pmem_free_sgl()
API to be more like sgl_alloc() in that the alloc function returns
the allocated scatterlist and nents is not required bythe free
function.
* Moved the new documentation into the driver-api tree as requested
by Jonathan
* Add SGL alloc and free helpers in the nvmet code so that the
individual drivers can share the code that allocates P2P memory.
As requested by Christoph.
* Cleanup the nvmet_p2pmem_store() function as Christoph
thought my first attempt was ugly.
* Numerous commit message and comment fix-ups
Changes in v3:
* Many more fixes and minor cleanups that were spotted by Bjorn
* Additional explanation of the ACS change in both the commit message
and Kconfig doc. Also, the code that disables the ACS bits is surrounded
explicitly by an #ifdef
* Removed the flag we added to rdma_rw_ctx() in favour of using
is_pci_p2pdma_page(), as suggested by Sagi.
* Adjust pci_p2pmem_find() so that it prefers P2P providers that
are closest to (or the same as) the clients using them. In cases
of ties, the provider is randomly chosen.
* Modify the NVMe Target code so that the PCI device name of the provider
may be explicitly specified, bypassing the logic in pci_p2pmem_find().
(Note: it's still enforced that the provider must be behind the
same switch as the clients).
* As requested by Bjorn, added documentation for driver writers.
Changes in v2:
* Renamed everything to 'p2pdma' per the suggestion from Bjorn as well
as a bunch of cleanup and spelling fixes he pointed out in the last
series.
* To address Alex's ACS concerns, we change to a simpler method of
just disabling ACS behind switches for any kernel that has
CONFIG_PCI_P2PDMA.
* We also reject using devices that employ 'dma_virt_ops' which should
fairly simply handle Jason's concerns that this work might break with
the HFI, QIB and rxe drivers that use the virtual ops to implement
their own special DMA operations.
--
This is a continuation of our work to enable using Peer-to-Peer PCI
memory in the kernel with initial support for the NVMe fabrics target
subsystem. Many thanks go to Christoph Hellwig who provided valuable
feedback to get these patches to where they are today.
The concept here is to use memory that's exposed on a PCI BAR as
data buffers in the NVMe target code such that data can be transferred
from an RDMA NIC to the special memory and then directly to an NVMe
device avoiding system memory entirely. The upside of this is better
QoS for applications running on the CPU utilizing memory and lower
PCI bandwidth required to the CPU (such that systems could be designed
with fewer lanes connected to the CPU).
Due to these trade-offs we've designed the system to only enable using
the PCI memory in cases where the NIC, NVMe devices and memory are all
behind the same PCI switch hierarchy. This will mean many setups that
could likely work well will not be supported so that we can be more
confident it will work and not place any responsibility on the user to
understand their topology. (We chose to go this route based on feedback
we received at the last LSF). Future work may enable these transfers
using a white list of known good root complexes. However, at this time,
there is no reliable way to ensure that Peer-to-Peer transactions are
permitted between PCI Root Ports.
In order to enable this functionality, we introduce a few new PCI
functions such that a driver can register P2P memory with the system.
Struct pages are created for this memory using devm_memremap_pages()
and the PCI bus offset is stored in the corresponding pagemap structure.
When the PCI P2PDMA config option is selected the ACS bits in every
bridge port in the system are turned off to allow traffic to
pass freely behind the root port. At this time, the bit must be disabled
at boot so the IOMMU subsystem can correctly create the groups, though
this could be addressed in the future. There is no way to dynamically
disable the bit and alter the groups.
Another set of functions allow a client driver to create a list of
client devices that will be used in a given P2P transactions and then
use that list to find any P2P memory that is supported by all the
client devices.
In the block layer, we also introduce a P2P request flag to indicate a
given request targets P2P memory as well as a flag for a request queue
to indicate a given queue supports targeting P2P memory. P2P requests
will only be accepted by queues that support it. Also, P2P requests
are marked to not be merged seeing a non-homogenous request would
complicate the DMA mapping requirements.
In the PCI NVMe driver, we modify the existing CMB support to utilize
the new PCI P2P memory infrastructure and also add support for P2P
memory in its request queue. When a P2P request is received it uses the
pci_p2pmem_map_sg() function which applies the necessary transformation
to get the corrent pci_bus_addr_t for the DMA transactions.
In the RDMA core, we also adjust rdma_rw_ctx_init() and
rdma_rw_ctx_destroy() to take a flags argument which indicates whether
to use the PCI P2P mapping functions or not. To avoid odd RDMA devices
that don't use the proper DMA infrastructure this code rejects using
any device that employs the virt_dma_ops implementation.
Finally, in the NVMe fabrics target port we introduce a new
configuration boolean: 'allow_p2pmem'. When set, the port will attempt
to find P2P memory supported by the RDMA NIC and all namespaces. If
supported memory is found, it will be used in all IO transfers. And if
a port is using P2P memory, adding new namespaces that are not supported
by that memory will fail.
These patches have been tested on a number of Intel based systems and
for a variety of RDMA NICs (Mellanox, Broadcomm, Chelsio) and NVMe
SSDs (Intel, Seagate, Samsung) and p2pdma devices (Eideticom,
Microsemi, Chelsio and Everspin) using switches from both Microsemi
and Broadcomm.
Logan Gunthorpe (13):
PCI/P2PDMA: Support peer-to-peer memory
PCI/P2PDMA: Add sysfs group to display p2pmem stats
PCI/P2PDMA: Add PCI p2pmem DMA mappings to adjust the bus offset
PCI/P2PDMA: Introduce configfs/sysfs enable attribute helpers
docs-rst: Add a new directory for PCI documentation
PCI/P2PDMA: Add P2P DMA driver writer's documentation
block: Add PCI P2P flag for request queue and check support for
requests
IB/core: Ensure we map P2P memory correctly in
rdma_rw_ctx_[init|destroy]()
nvme-pci: Use PCI p2pmem subsystem to manage the CMB
nvme-pci: Add support for P2P memory in requests
nvme-pci: Add a quirk for a pseudo CMB
nvmet: Introduce helper functions to allocate and free request SGLs
nvmet: Optionally use PCI P2P memory
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci | 25 +
Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 2 +-
Documentation/driver-api/pci/index.rst | 21 +
Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst | 170 ++++++
Documentation/driver-api/{ => pci}/pci.rst | 0
block/blk-core.c | 14 +
drivers/infiniband/core/rw.c | 11 +-
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 4 +
drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h | 8 +
drivers/nvme/host/pci.c | 121 ++--
drivers/nvme/target/configfs.c | 36 ++
drivers/nvme/target/core.c | 149 +++++
drivers/nvme/target/nvmet.h | 15 +
drivers/nvme/target/rdma.c | 22 +-
drivers/pci/Kconfig | 17 +
drivers/pci/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/pci/p2pdma.c | 941 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/blkdev.h | 3 +
include/linux/memremap.h | 6 +
include/linux/mm.h | 18 +
include/linux/pci-p2pdma.h | 124 ++++
include/linux/pci.h | 4 +
22 files changed, 1658 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/pci/index.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/pci/p2pdma.rst
rename Documentation/driver-api/{ => pci}/pci.rst (100%)
create mode 100644 drivers/pci/p2pdma.c
create mode 100644 include/linux/pci-p2pdma.h
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2.11.0